Japan Flora: Brownish red hairy small shrub with subterranean creeping stems; aerial stems 10-30 cm. long, sparingly branched, red-brown and glandular-tipped hairy; leaves coriaceous, lustrous, broadly ovate, 15-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acute to short-acuminate, undulate-toothed, glabrate, the vein- lets prominent, the petioles 1-2 mm. long; flowers solitary, on nodding peduncles 2-4 cm. long, the bracts and bracteoles several, ovate, acute; calyx-lobes ovate, long-hirsute, red and fleshy when mature, surrounding the capsule; corolla campanu- late, white, 7-8 mm. long; capsules about 8 mm. across. May-July. Coniferous woods and subalpine thickets;

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku.